100 years later, these racist postcards are being ‘returned to sender’ by a Wiradjuri artist

she said her action was "in protest at the negligence and complete disregard of cultural safety and duty of care on the part of the Festival with regard to participating artists, including myself".Dickens came across the first postcard in her collection many years ago, sandwiched between the pages of a book she'd picked up at an op-shop.

"Some of the messages have got nothing to do with the postcard at all … but other ones are really derogatory comments about the women – 'Check out this style!' [under the image of a half-naked woman] and 'How would you like to show up here?'" Dickens told ABC RN's The Art Show. Scanned and enlarged, the postcards are now part of large-scale wall collages in her Carriageworks exhibition.

Many of the images she selected were over a century old, which meant the people in them had passed away many years ago. She also consulted with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies to make sure none of the content in the images related to sacred or secret material.

"There is vulnerability in those [postcard] images, and Cindy just steps it up and goes, 'This is our past, and we're still here, we're still strong,'" says Dickens.

Oh God save us from this drivel.

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